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On hearing the charge, the man seemed enlightened, and, saying not another word, resigned himself with preternatural civility to the search-party, who, with their staves in their hands, surrounded him on all sides, and marched him back toward the shepherd's cottage. It was eleven o'clock by the time they arrived.
He proposed getting up a search-party for Sam. The idea was laughed down. Nice fools they'd make of themselves, opined Mahooley, setting out to look for a man in good health and in the full possession of his faculties who hadn't committed any crime. There was a good attendance at Bela's dinner, and a full house at night. To their undiscerning eyes Bela seemed to be her old self.
They might not find it, and a search-party of Wealdians might. All he could possibly do was try to make contact and give warning by such means as would leave no evidence behind that he'd done so. Weald would consider a warning sure proof of blueskin guilt. It was not satisfactory to be limited to broadcasts which might not be picked up, and were unlikely to be acknowledged.
There was defiance and courage in her face, not the apprehension which had almost overwhelmed her as they started back to Tralee, having been rescued by the search-party from Slow Down Ranch. The night had done something to Louise which was making itself felt. "You think you can come back here after what you've done after where you've been the likes of you!" Mazarine snarled unmoving.
As the search-party crowded in among the women, and pushed all before them into the large warm room, M. Kollsen was seen standing on the stair-head, wrapped in the bear-skin coverlid. "Is the boy there?" he inquired. Oddo showed himself. "How much have you seen of Nipen, hey?" "Nobody ever had a better sight of it, sir. It was as plain as I see you now, and no further off."
Now, by dint of distance and snow, they ceased to be visible in the welter of drifted whiteness under the glare of the Master's flashlight. "This means a search-party," decided the man. And he turned homeward, to telephone for a posse of neighbors. Lad, being only a dog, had no such way of sharing his burden. He had been told to find the child.
"I wonder," gasped Roger, "how long it will be before Leigh collects all the men, and, missing us, sends out a search-party?" "They should all be mustered long before this," replied his companion. "You must remember that it took us some time to reach this place, and Leigh started to look for the men directly we left him. Hark! there goes the trumpet for our recall, unless I am mistaken.
By sunup the search-party returned, all too worn-out with twenty-four hours in the saddle to continue the hunt. They were even too worn-out to eat, but flung themselves down for a few hours' rest. The chase was hopeless anyway, for the search-party had gone north in the night.
Especially careful was this search as they neared the Haven but not a trace of him could they find. The Petersons were greatly concerned over the missing man. The captain suggested that the neighbours should be notified and a search-party should start out at once. As this seemed the only thing to do, Jasper hurried to the village and aroused Andy Forbes from his slumbers.
"Take him, your grace," had urged Jane Coop, whose own heart was nigh to breaking at being left behind. "Take him; he'll find her if we should happen to have made a mistake. Missie calling you, Wellington. Take the book to Missie; she wants it." And the dog had obediently picked up the book in his teeth and waddled in the wake of the search-party.
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